Resolved issue with Freehand syncing: Sketch 53.1 no longer crashes when syncing a Freehand with artboards that have a background color set in the Sketch Inspector panel.

Craft Data and symbol layers: You can now apply Craft Data on a symbol and select the appropriate layer within it.

Anima plugin and symbols: When using the Anima plugin, symbols will now appear detached in Inspect.

Resolved issue when checking for updates: Checking for updates or pressing the update button is no longer unresponsive in situations where the Craft Manager application has not been moved from its initial installation directory.

Version Changes

The version numbers for these Craft tools were updated with this release:

Craft Manager: 1.0.76 (Sketch and Photoshop)

Craft Sync: 2.3.121 (Sketch only)

Craft Freehand: 1.0.35 (Sketch only)

Craft Stock: 1.0.35 (Sketch only)

Craft Duplicate: 1.0.20 (Sketch only)

Craft Data: 1.0.38 (Sketch only)

January 24, 2019

What's New

Bulk delete hotspots: Now you can bulk delete multiple links created with Craft Prototyping! We heard your feedback that deleting numerous hotspots can be a very tedious task if artboards with links are copied or if you simply want to start over. As seen in the GIF below, to bulk delete hotspots, select the appropriate layers or artboards in Sketch, click the Craft menu, click Prototype, and click Delete Selected Hotspots.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Layer style overrides in Inspect: Now Inspect will display the styling—e.g., color, border, blur—of the symbol instance override as expected rather than display the info for the master symbol.

Signing in to Craft Manager: When signing in via Craft Manager, you can now enter https:// in the Team Domain field without experiencing a crash.

Craft Player issues resolved:

Craft Player will now load Sketch files with extended characters—e.g., ampersands and spaces—in the file path.

Craft Player will now render overlay screens correctly.

Craft Player links will now respect the Maintain scroll position after click prototype setting.

Craft Player no longer displays blank space on the right side if the macOS preference is set to Always show scroll bars.

Resolved Issue with Craft Sync freezing: Now you won't run into the issue that had caused Craft Sync to become unresponsive in certain instances despite the sync completing successfully.

Version Changes

The version numbers for these Craft tools were updated with this release:

Craft Manager: 1.0.75 (Sketch and Photoshop)

Craft Sync: 2.3.113 (Sketch only)

Craft Stock: 1.0.34 (Sketch only)

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December 19, 2018

What's New

Streamlined update process: To ensure it's easy for you to get the latest and greatest, the update process for Craft is now simpler—as seen in the GIF below. Rather than needing to update Craft Manager as well as the individual Sketch or Photoshop plugins, you can now update all aspects of Craft by clicking a single Update button in Craft Manager in the Mac menu bar.

Bug Fix

Stock sign in issue: You can now sign in to your Getty or iStock account in Stock as expected.

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December 3, 2018

Bug Fix

Emoji in page titles supported: Now you can use emoji in your Sketch page titles as wanted without it preventing assets from syncing.

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November 6, 2018

What's New

Craft Player: Now you can preview your Craft prototypes right within Sketch, without having to sync to InVision Cloud.

Support resources: The updated Help Center link in the settings dropdown now links to some helpful Craft content.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

InVision Sync issues solved: You don't have to worry about running into the issues that were previously causing InVision Sync to perpetually sync, crash, or overwrite files.

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October 17, 2018

What's New

MacOS Mojave Support: You can now use Craft tools as expected with macOS 10.14 Mojave Dark Mode.

Photoshop CC 2019 support: You can now use Craft tools as expected with Photoshop CC 2019.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Issue with external links: External URL links that are not formatted correctly no longer break.

Issue embedding Getty images: Now you shouldn't have any trouble embedding images from Getty when using Sketch version 52.

Issue with Duplicate button: You can now use the Duplicate button as expected.

Issue saving file with Craft Sync: When using the Craft Sync shortcut (Shift + Control + A), the Save File modal now opens as expected.

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September 2018

What's New

Increased Support: Craft + Sync is now supported for use with Sketch 52.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Migrate to object IDs: To track screen changes and asset changes, Craft + Sync now uses object IDs, which resolves many common bugs where screen updates get out of sync.

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August 2018

What's New

Craft now proxies network traffic: Enterprises with network firewalls have previously had to whitelist ~25 different domains so Craft could communicate with required services. These are now proxied through one domain (craft-api.invisionapp.com).Note: This was rolled out to 25% of users in August.

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July 2018

What's New

Symbols marked for export generate assets in Inspect: You can now mark a symbol for export one time, and each instance of the symbol will appear as downloadable in Inspect.

Bug Fixes

Some Inspect assets stuck in 'sync in progress': Layers and slices marked for export within Symbols on the Symbols page no longer get stuck during the sync process. You can now access all symbols in Inspect.

Craft Library document styles broken in Sketch version 50: You can now create document style guides when working with Sketch version 50.

What's New

Send Feedback: A new option in the Settings menu makes it easier to submit feedback to the InVision team. Should you need to report an issue with a Craft tool, you also now have the option to send us log files, which will allow our Support advocates to assist you more quickly.

Design System Manager (DSM): Our latest offering to streamline workflow for teams designing at scale, DSM is integrated into Sketch as a Craft tool that builds upon and replaces Craft Library. The DSM tool is now enabled by default when first installing Craft Manager. Craft Library is no longer enabled by default but remains available for users who have used it in the past.

Bug Fixes

Hotspots deleted in Craft were not removed from the web prototype: This had been resulting in hotspots that couldn’t be removed or changed in any way.

Craft Data filled multiple layers with same image: When placing fill images into multiple layers, the same image had been errantly inserted rather than a unique image per layer.

Craft Duplicate reused the same Unsplash image: When duplicating layers filled with Unsplash images, some images were re-used rather than utilizing a unique image per layer.

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May 2018

What's New

Increased speed: Craft Manager version 1.0.63 introduced significant improvements to the syncing process, reducing overall average sync time by as much as 50% (and often more!).

Unchanged artboards are not synced: Along with general sync improvements, a new feature has been introduced that prevents unchanged artboards from syncing, even when syncing all artboards.

Seamless integration with Anima’s Auto Layout plugin: Craft now integrates with the popular Auto Layout plugin from Anima. When Craft detects that this plugin is installed, it will automatically use Auto Layout’s Prepare for export to other plugins feature behind the scenes. This allows your exports to use all of your specified layout rules correctly without requiring the extra step of preparing for export manually.

Improved artboard preview during publishing: An improved preview window for published artboards has been added to Craft Manager, making it clearer which artboards will be synced.

Bug Fixes

Sync issue caused by emojis in layer names: Using emojis in Sketch layer names no longer prevents Inspect from properly processing the file.

Symbol artboards not syncing: Artboards that are linked to symbols will now sync as expected.

Craft fails to sync duplicated artboards: Craft no longer fails to sync an artboard after duplicating it or creating a new artboard and renaming the original artboard in Sketch.

Support keyboard shortcuts for syncing: Using the Ctrl+Shift+A and Crtl+Shift+S shortcuts now initiate sync immediately.

@2x modifier added to assets despite @1x option being selected: Craft no longer adds a @2x modifier when the @1x setting is enabled in sync preferences.

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April 2018

What's New

Automatically rename duplicate artboards: Currently, Craft relies on the names of artboards to uniquely identify them within InVision. Therefore, if multiple artboards have the same name, only one of the duplicate artboards will be synced. This has resulted in what appears to be sync failures or hotspots going missing. To prevent confusion, Craft will now detect when artboards with duplicate names are being synced, and it will offer to rename them for you by adding incrementing numerals to end of the duplicate artboard names.

Freehand sign in through Craft Manager: The sign-in flow for the Craft Freehand tool with Sketch is now part of Craft Manager. This should streamline authentication and make it more intuitive.

Improved resizing for straight lines in Freehand: The behavior of the resizing handles used to resize relatively straight lines you've drawn has improved, making it easier to change the length of your line (or a thin shape) without changing the proportions of the line. Pro tip: Hold Shift while drawing a new line for a perfect straight angle!

Bug Fixes

Sketch crashing when using Craft Prototype: Pressing the C key to create hotspots was crashing Sketch in some instances.

Large Sketch files failing to sync: Sketch files with numerous complex pages and symbols could get stuck when detaching symbols, causing the sync process to fail.

Wrong thumbnail displayed when initially syncing a new prototype: When syncing a new prototype, Craft was displaying a thumbnail from a previously synced prototype.

Artboards prefixed with a hyphen/minus symbol (-) are no longer excluded from sync: The ability to exclude artboards prefixed with (-) from syncing with Craft is now supported by the new Craft Manager publishing flow.

Craft Manager window displayed in incorrect location for vertically stacked monitors: The Craft Manager window no longer opens at the bottom of the screen if multi-screen setup is vertically stacked.

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March 2018

Bug Fixes

Sketch 49.1 compatibility: Craft Prototyping was not compatible with the Sketch 49.1 beta.

High CPU usage: Users will no longer experience an issue that was causing CPU spikes when using Craft Manager.

What's New

Craft Manager publishing: We released a new version of Craft Manager, moving the sync experience out of Sketch and into Craft Manager. This reduced complexity, improved performance, and generally made the syncing experience more stable. You can now also continue working in Sketch while we sync in the background.

Auto save: You can now elect to automatically save a file before syncing which will prevent you always from being prompted to save if there are unsaved changes.

Prototype list: The new Prototype tab in Craft Manager gives you quick access to your team’s prototypes, allowing you to stay in touch without leaving your desktop.

Create only one document at a time in Freehand: If you accidentally click“Create” several times when starting a new Freehand, you can now be sure that only one document will be created.

“Type something”faster with text in Freehand: When you create a new text layer, the default“type something” text will now be selected. Just start typing to overwrite it.

Bug Fixes

Sketch 49 compatibility: Craft Prototyping was not immediately compatible with the new

Updated publishing fixes: A number of issues were fixed thanks to the new publishing workflow.

Craft Sync detaching/deleting symbols: Fixed a rare but nasty bug that resulted in symbols being removed or left in a detached state after syncing.

Sketch crashing: There were a few edge cases that were causing Sketch to crash during the sync process. Syncing no longer happens in Sketch which prevents Sketch itself from crashing during that process.

Nested grouped symbols: We now support symbols that are self-referencing within a group.

Sketch freezing: Syncing complex Sketch files may result in slowdown in performance or indefinite hanging. This is no longer the case.

Hidden layer: We no longer send up broken assets of hidden layers.

Grouped symbol assets: If symbol layers are grouped, in Inspect the symbol layer name will show as the group layer name instead and if marked for export, that asset will also not appear under Inspect assets

Assets with forward slashes: We now support Inspect assets with a “xx/xx” naming convention.

Selection resize functionality: Resizing any selection in a freehand document that contains empty text layers is now working without any scaling problems.

Multi-line text: Issue where occasional empty text lines were created after pressing Shift+Enter is no longer happening.

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November 2017

No updates for Craft tools Duplicate, Stock, Library, Data

What's New - Freehand

Switch to Pencil tool: Double click with the pointer tool anywhere on canvasnow quickly switches to the pencil tool.

Shadow rendering: New faster and smoother rendering for drop shadows on artboards imported from Sketch/Photoshop.

“Who draw this” functionality improved: Name of the author for lines/text/images now displays different text based on the item type: drawn by, added by, written by.

Freehand from Prototype: Users can now create new Freehand documents from any of their prototypes by simply pressing the Freehand icon next to Liveshare in Project’s view.

Freehand Tool(Sketch/PS) : Completely new Freehand tool that lets users sign in with their InVision accounts and create new freehands or update already existing ones.

Archive functionality:When freehand is archived, the URL will not be accessible anymore (same behavior as all other InVision project types).

Keyboard shortcut help: Improved shortcuts helper now with all Freehand shortcuts categoried by their purpose.

Bug Fixes - Freehand

Close video modal: The issue of the escape button not responding next to the video player is now fixed and fully functional.

Zoom Numeric keypad: Cmd + shortcut to zoom now works on Numeric keypad.

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October 2017

What's New

Shape fill functionality: Users are able to select a shape, by pressing “cmd+e” they will add a fill color to that selected shape.Pencil color picker: Users are able to change the pencil color by clicking the ••• menu at the top left, then clicking Change my default color.Get started video: New walkthrough video tutorial is now available through the Freehand Guide.Rich text editing: Users are now able to format text in Freehand. Allowed formatting functionality such as - Bold (cmd+b) - Highlight (cmd+e) - Align center (cmd+shift+c) - Align left (cmd+shift+l)

Bug Fixes

Craft Sync Photoshop- Screens over 10,000px in height can now be synced via Craft Sync in Photoshop

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August 2017

What's New

Craft Changelog- We now include information on what’s changed when pushing out updates to Craft.

Special Thanks To- You can now view a list of all the open source projects we use in Craft Manager and the Craft suite. Special thanks to the open source community!

Bug Fixes

Craft Sync 46.2 Crash-Fixes a scenario where sketch 46.2 was crashing when some users were re-authenticating.

Sketch Measurements-Fixed an issue that prevented the alt key measurement shortcut in Sketch not working after Sync.

Craft Sync Photoshop Large Artboards-You can now upload artboards larger then 10000px in Craft Sync Photoshop.

Craft Manager Minor Bug Fixes

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July 2017

What's New

Craft Library Conflict Resolution

Library conflict resolution! You no longer have to worry about conflicts or corrupted files when editing files together especially when storing the library on a cloud host such as Dropbox, Box, etc. Simply work on your file and if a conflict that can be automatically resolved happens then Craft Library will prompt you to resolve the conflict in a friendly way by creating a copy of your remote library in a local folder. Click here for more details about how this works.

What's New

Prototype in Sketch

With Craft Prototype, you’ll experience an unparalleled level of continuity between Sketch and InVision. By bringing your design and prototyping process together, work faster, collaborate more seamlessly, and stay focused to create more amazing products with your team.

Auto-update detection right from Sketch tools without a need for CRAFT Manager to be open or trigger the update This prevents you from experiencing a broken Sketch when there’s a waiting update for CRAFT. Notifications include an easy flow with alert modals + update buttons that will open and update through CRAFT Manager.

Photoshop Data tool released

Photos + Type were merged to mirror the Sketch tool and have just one Data tool. Only difference left is Sketch’s unique JSON + web view.

Sketch Data Tool

Data works while in symbols now.

Freehand Items Snap to Grid

You can now snap your items to an invisible grid, as well as a horizontal/vertical axis by holding SHIFT + Moving your items. This works for all objects in Freehand including text, images, and artboards.

Bug Fixes

Craft Manager:

Tool Versions: We made a change that makes it easier to see version numbers of individual tools.

Smarter Updating: We made a few changes that make it easier to keep your tools up to date

Craft Tools:

Datatypes for Craft in Sketch now fixed

Craft Freehand:

Improved quality at each zoom level:You can now see your artboards even clearer in Freehand. Previously it was possible to get blurry artboards at certain zoom levels, now Freehand will progressively load higher quality versions of your artboards at each zoom level.

Craft Prototype:

Overlay Background Opacity:Setting the Overlay Background Opacity in Craft Prototype with a numeric value without % was throwing an error.

Overlay Fixed Position: When the Fix position of overlay setting was unchecked in Craft prototype, and artboards/hotspots were synced, overlays were still remaining fixed in position.

Target Screen:When a Desktop"Link to Screen" hotspot is set to Hover and Stay on Target Screen in Craft Prototype mode, the Stay on Target Screen setting was not being respected once synced up to InVision.

Prototype Link:The size of the clicking area for modifying a link was being changed depending on the zoom level.

Craft Sync:

Photoshop Artboard Sync:New Artboards in Photoshop wouldn’t sync unless they were converted from a layer or layer groups. This is no longer the case.

Forward Slash in Artboards:We’ve fixed a bug that was preventing forward slashes from being included in a sync. This has been reverted to the previous behavior of using- instead of /.

Craft Manager

Application now supports other apps commanding a platform to be updated

Added Loggly

Added device id to analytics and logging

Added command :user to display user and device info

1.0.30-50 May 4, 2017

Getty will directly open in Photoshop from the istock/getty page

1.0.29-49 May 2, 2017

Product version numbers are displayed using hover or pressing the option key

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April 2017

What's New

Rename Artboards

You can now rename artboards in Sketch without creating duplicate screens in InVision. This initially caused some troubles due to how were matching screens. However, we released an update which resolved these issues.

S3 Proxy

If you are working behind a proxy or firewallthen we’ve just made your life a little bit easier. You no longer have to whitelist AmazonAWS to be able to use Craft Sync.

Bug Fixes

Craft Sync

Auto Stretch Automatically Set:We’ve fixed an issue where the auto stretch setting was being set automatically for screens synced via Craft Sync.

Letter Casing Sketch Crash:When replacing a prototype screen with the same name but different casing, it was causing Sketch to crash. This is no longer the case.

Duplicate Artboards:We were seeing a large number of duplicate prototype screens due to a recent change to how we matched using the source filename. As a result, we’ve brought back the old way of matching using screen name while keeping the ability to rename artboards without creating duplicates.

Identical Asset Names: Artboards with assets marked as exportable using the same name would result in Sketch crashing.

File Size Limit:We’ve increased the file size limit of synced screens. It was previously set to 10mb and is now 100mb.

Enterprise Security for Craft Manager: We released a fix for proxied S3 URLs.

Craft Manager

1.0.28-48 April 21,2017

Fixed bug that required you to restart Sketch/Photoshop after installing Craft

Application now uses s3 proxy for API downloads as well as production.json

Application server now reports the status of installed platforms for the current channel

Added analytics to the application so we can track users currently installed products

Platform version modified to be greater than pre-version 1.0.26-46

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March 2017

What's New

Freehand Animated GIFs:

You can now use Animated GIFs in your Freehand to best get your concepts across whether it’s with an animated workflow or meme of the month.

Copy/Paste Images and Artboards in Freehand:

You can now copy and paste artboards and images from your computer, Photoshop, Sketch, and even between Freehands!

Duplicate Items in Freehand via Keyboard Shortcuts:

You can now leverage your design tools chops and use the same shortcuts you use in Sketch to duplicate items in Freehand via the Shift + Move, and Shift + Alt + Move keyboard shortcuts.

Transparent PNGs:

You can now use Transparent PNGs in Freehand to clearly demonstrate your design and workflow concepts.

Vector Pen:

You can now draw diagonal lines with assistance by holding the SHIFT key while you draw with the pen tool to get assistance in drawing perfect straight lines at different angles.

Craft Web Onboarding:

Now when you visit the Craft web pageand download Craft you’ll get visually instructive and animated descriptions of each Craft plug-in helping you to become an active Craft user more quickly.

Craft Onboarding:

Now when you newly install Craft you’ll see visually descriptive on-boarding experience for each Craft plug-in they have enabled.

Freehand Onboarding:

Now when you use Freehand for the first time you’ll get a step-by-step on-boarding experiencing instructing you how to use all the core features.

Renaming Artboards:

You can now rename your artboards in Sketch without it creating duplicate prototype screens.

Create Prototype in Craft Sync:

You can now create InVision prototypes without having to leave Sketch or Photoshop!

New Syncing Indicator:

Ever get tired of waiting for a sync to finish? You can now minimize the Craft Sync window and still have visibility over upload progress while you continue working. We even alert you when your prototype is ready to view.

Bug Fixes

Craft Data

Custom Items Showing Duplicate Content –Fixed issue where creating multiple custom items would sometimes show the same data across all items, rather than unique data for each custom item.

Craft Freehand

Borders / Drop Shadows not showing–Artboards now show borders and drop shadows even when there’s a large number of artboards.

Sign-in Error: You’ll see far less Unknown Error messages when trying to sign in to Craft Sync.

Deleted Prototype: Deleted prototypes no longer show up in Craft Sync prototype selector

Craft Manager

1.0.26-46 March 27, 2017

The application can now install individual product tools independently. This will allow developers to update tools more often and make Craft more stable.

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February 2017

What's New

Introducing Craft Freehand:

Freehand is a fast, flexible new way to collaborate in real time. It’s an infinite, collaborative space for your team to work through design ideas from Sketch or Photoshopon any device.Read the full announcement or download Craft!

Bug Fixes

Craft Freehand:

Image resizing:Fixed issue where images weren’t resizing in real time when acted upon.

Pinch to zoom while hovering resizes whole page: When you would pinch to zoom while hovering an element the whole page would resize, not just the elements on the canvas.

Pinch to zoom doesn’t cancel follow in Safari

Artboard quality: Improved raster image quality when loading a Freehand with many artboards or very large images.

Unable to‘Pan’ properly in Firefox: Pan wasn’t working properly for Firefox with either spacebar or mouse/touchpad.

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January 2017

Bug Fixes

Craft Manager:

Bugs and stability: A few more bugs were resolved and Craft Manager should be more stable than ever.

Craft Sync:

Spaces in artboard names:We fixed an issue that prevented Inspect from showing screens when whitespace was at the beginning or end of an artboard name.